Measure for paper bags.



No. 677,892. Patented luly 9,'l90l.

J. W. JINNETTE.

MEASURE FOR PAPER BAGS.

(Application filed Oct. 11., 1900.;

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT Gr mes,

JOHN WV. JINNETTE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MEASURE FOR PAPER BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,892, dated July 9, 1901. Application filed October 11, 1eoo. serial to. 32,675. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. JINNETTE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measures for Paper Bags, 850. and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a bottomless measuring vessel used by grocers and others and generally in connection with a paper bag; and the object of this invention is, to improve the construction of such measures by providing them with double bails adapted to hold open the mouths of bags in which they are inserted.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein a device embodying the invention is shown in perspective as applied to a paper bag, a part of which is broken away to show the parts in position.

In the drawing, A designates an ordinary paper bag, and B a bottomless measure, preferably cylindrical. At the open upper end this is provided with a pair of ears 0, and in these are hung a pair of bails D. The cars are preferably provided with shoulders C to prevent both bails from folding down toward the same side of the measure. The bails are made long enough, so that when turned down their bows will project considerably past the rim of the measure, and therefore when the measure is placed in a paper bag and the bails drop downwardly they will strike the inside of the bag near the mouth, standing at an incline, and thus hold it open as wide asor wider than the mouth of the measure.

It is to be understood that in use the measure is first slippedinto a bag, then filled with whatever the measured commodity may be, and finally lifted out, leaving the contents in the bag. Hitherto this operation has been more or less obstructed by the tendency of the bag to bend or curl inwardly at the mouth, but this is prevented by the bails in the manner above described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination withabottomless meas-' ure, substantially as described, of a pair of bails of longer radius than the mouth of the measure pivoted to it near its upper end, and adapted as they turn outwardly and downwardly to hold open the mouth of a bag in which said measure is inserted.

2. The combination with a bottomless meas' ure, substantially as described, of a pair of double ears near its upper end, provided with central, outwardlyprojecting shoulders, a pair of bails pivoted to said ears near the shoulders, and adapted to hold open the mouth of a bag in which the measure is in serted.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. JINNETTE. 

